“I can move my mind so it is as though I’ve never seen a water bottle before”
I liken this to one of my favourite concepts, shoshin—”a beginner’s mind”. Entering a state of shoshin requires perceptual dexterity.
One of the problems it tries to overcome, and which you describe in different words, is the Einstellung effect—when your perception of a problem is stuck in some way. And that’s one of the reasons perceptual dexterity is so important in original research (and especially math & philosophy).
I liken this to one of my favourite concepts, shoshin—”a beginner’s mind”. Entering a state of shoshin requires perceptual dexterity.
One of the problems it tries to overcome, and which you describe in different words, is the Einstellung effect—when your perception of a problem is stuck in some way. And that’s one of the reasons perceptual dexterity is so important in original research (and especially math & philosophy).